Thanks! that will be fine. Btw replacing files e.g. on Google Code would be really useful, now you can only post a new file, so the url won’t be the same. That’s ok but not for bookmarklets.
If you’re going to go the framed route, which we do with Wishlisting, you’re going to run into privacy issues in Internet Explorer if you use cookies. We overlay an iFrame and walk people through a short wizard when they add something to their wishlists. In Internet Explorer, we couldn’t make use of cookies to track their credentials until we instituted a P3P policy. Just a heads up for anyone running into odd cookie errors in IE… it’s time to read up on P3P 
Hi Tom, thanks for dropping by :). That’s a great point, I was going to start using cookies to remember settings in my own bookmarklets, didn’t realize that P3P would be an issue (never had to deal with it before).
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nice post, can’t wait to build a bookmarklet of my own
Thanks, hope it comes in handy for you :).
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Your ability to explain things clearly has already changed my life :). I had tried to learn about bookmarklets earlier, but now I started to understand their full potential. Perhaps too much possibilities so that browsers will soon make their usage impossible as it is already in https:// .
When your instacalc is used on a page with meta refresh tag with value eg. 300 seconds, the program disappears. Any way to prevent the refreshing programmatically?
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Hi optimistx, thanks for the comment! This post was buried under a slew of spam comments which I just cleaned up.
I didn’t know about the meta-refresh issue – I’m hesitant to block it since it may take away from the page functionality.
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Sorry if this is a newb question, but Kalid, why do you wrap your bookmarklet js in a function? Personal taste? Particular browser compatibility? Here’s what I see in the instacalc js:
(function() {
[code]
})()
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I was actually searching for something else but you’ve now got me thinking about how I can solve another problem I’ve been thinking about. Thank you.